1-627-455 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

A letter from William Penn of Pennsylania, late 17th-early 18th century, (1840). Penn (1644-1718), English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, founded the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).